Supporting liveable climate sensitive cities through integrated urban land management
Renée Chartres, our Senior Land and Legal Specialist, shares her thoughts on urban land management and its many linkages with climate and other critical socio-political issues.
The MRLG Project Hosts the 4th Mekong Regional Land Forum, celebrating 11 years of the Project
In September 2025, the 4th Mekong Regional Land Forum brought together more than 450 participants in person and online to reflect on the future of land governance in the Mekong region.
Land is the Link: Climate, Gender, Sustainable Change and the Future of Development
The world of land tenure and administration is also constantly evolving, influenced by political change, climate disruption, and technological evolution. Global official development assistance (ODA) fell in 2024 for the first time in five years, dropping by 7.1% as donor countries shifted their priorities inward and scaled back commitments. Although some countries – like Korea, […]
Working on Improving Land Registration with Lesotho’s Community Councils
Good land registration is crucial for sustainable land management and securing land rights in Lesotho. It ensures clear ownership, resolves disputes, and protects tenure security. Overcoming challenges like women’s land rights and high registration costs can foster fairer, more transparent land systems.
Bringing Gender to the Forefront in Land Registration: Reflections from Lineo Rakaibe
Lineo Rakaibe is a gender expert working with LEI in Lesotho. She writes from her previous experience as a District Gender Officer under the Ministry of Gender, Youth and Social Development, and more recently as a Senior Gender and Social Inclusion Expert on the Land and Gender consultancy, part of the Market Driven Irrigated Horticulture (MDIH) project, which falls under the Millenium Challenge Corporation Lesotho Compact.
2025 Message from the MD: Happy New Year!
If 2024 was a day out of the office, it would have been to a theme park. We took many rides (a couple too many) on the roller coaster with tender proposals and travel, and not enough time at the picnic tables to exchange and connect. The unpredictability and sometime rapid pace of work in […]
Social Integrity in Forest Carbon Investments: What Is It, and Why Do We Need It? Written by Naomi Basik Treanor
Finance for nature-based solutions is on the upswing. The voluntary carbon market (VCM) and carbon investments have seen remarkable growth, particularly for projects that incentivize protection of forests and other landscapes in carbon-rich regions such as the Mekong, and is projected to mobilize up to US$5 billion annually in the next decade. Yet, like any […]
Message from the Managing Director
It has been a super productive and exciting time here at LEI over the past six months with tenders, international conferences and bigger still, project mobilisations. We won’t be enjoying long summer holidays like our northern partners but aiming for some crisp short winter-breaks down-under instead. The energy, the elation and warm hugs were really […]
“Welcome to the Mountain Kingdom” An Update on LEI Travel to Lesotho
Why did three members of the LEI team travel to Lesotho in the last three months? Because we kicked off with our national and internationally staffed team, a five-year contract by the US-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation to support the modernisation of the Rural Land Registration System in Lesotho, with a particular emphasis on supporting the […]
Project Update – Vanuatu Affordable and Resilient Settlements (VARS) Project
No country has yet achieved middle-income status without urbanising (World, Bank, 2012). Yet governments around the world are racing to keep pace with the infrastructure demands of rapid urbanisation. Like many cities around the world, Port Vila is facing an affordable housing shortage – with over 1000ha of new serviced land needed by 2030 to meet requirements, and an estimated 80% of city residents already suffering from rental stress. The Vanuatu Affordable and Resilient Settlements (VARS) project is seeking to help grow government and developer capacity to address the affordable housing and resilient infrastructure shortage.
